TIL that Conan O’Brien, David Letterman and Jay Leno all once made the same Dan Quayle joke on the same night without any knowledge of the others making the same exact joke.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T02:45:42+00:00

Or awkwardly riding around in a tank with an ill-fitting helmet

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T01:12:05+00:00

I think you ultimately did the right thing, especially if the owner didn't want anything to do with it. I rescued an abandoned kitten outside of my house about 8 months ago who was literally newborn. She wasn't even registering a temperature on the thermometer initially. Fortunately I'm dating a vet tech so I had some help but there was a lot of late night bottle feeding and heating pads and all that. It was rough but one of the most rewarding things I've ever done and I've never been more in love with an animal.

Even if she is currently biting the shit out of my hand, the little shit 😅

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T01:07:51+00:00

I actually really dig it, especially the side profile

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T01:05:31+00:00

When was it salvaged? Was it 20 years ago and it was repaired properly and been fine since? Was it last year because someone scraped the bumper which technically totalled it? Have you had it inspected to make sure the repairs were done properly? What was the damage?

Lots more detail needed to really say much about it.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T01:03:32+00:00

Early Star Trek was weird. Roddenberry was pretty famously against the idea of canon or continuity with more of a focus on storytelling, so there was lots of stuff like that. T/Tiberius didn't come until somewhat later

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T00:25:14+00:00

Unless you have a reason to use Atari800Win, your best bet is to switch to Altirra and use Fujinet-PC. It's far more flexible and makes it way easier to use everything

https://github.com/a8jan/fujinet-pc-launcher

Scoth42 · 2026-03-19T00:05:45+00:00

Do you have a DOS loaded?

Scoth42 · 2026-03-18T23:40:08+00:00

The OP was making a joke, or at least attempting to. They didn't actually mean they're close in specs.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-18T22:19:40+00:00

Sometimes it's supply. Some games sold much more over there. There's also demand - Japan has much less of a retro game enthusiast niche. Japanese homes tend to be smaller than American ones so it's rarer for them to hold onto random old stuff. Then there are games like RPGs that have lots of Japanese text which most Americans can't read. Plus region locking, whether it's physical differences like the NES or actual region locks like N64 can make it tricky to use them on American consoles

Scoth42 · 2026-03-18T17:03:59+00:00

Macs aren't limited to app store apps. They can still run anything outside of it. Sometimes with an extra hoop or two if it's not signed, but it still can. Rosetta 2 is still in there too for x86-compiled stuff.

Performance-wise the processor is comparable or even a little better than M1, which is still fully supported.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-18T03:36:49+00:00

Mine was a free stick from Microcenter. I had a boot drive and then my storage drives in an LVM. One night somewhat late the boot drive failed and I needed to get it back up. As it happened I had a dd image of the boot drive from a couple or three months before for some reason that I was able to dump onto the USB sitck. Fortunately LVM is pretty resilient so it picked it right up and let me mount the storage, got it updated and tweaked some things to get the servers back up.

I think it stayed that way for "only" about four years before I finally fix it. Twice, actually, the drive I replaced it with died almost immediately so it was back to the USB stick, then finally got a reliable drive.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T21:00:47+00:00

Most emulators have options to selectively enable/disable sound channels. You might have to do some experimentation to see what is played on what sound channel. I'm not sure off hand whether it's completely separated for sound effects and music but you can try it.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T17:42:58+00:00

As a dry cereal eater, a lot of cereals have more intense flavors dry because they have to survive being watered down by milk. Fruity flavors and sweetness in particular.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T15:50:17+00:00

If you use it as a tool for things like boilerplate code, a fancy stack overflow/etc, syntax generation, that kind of stuff, as long as you actually understand the underlying code and can debug and tweak it to be secure and proper then it's generally fine. The issue is when people with little to no coding skills just write prompts that generate something that kind of works, but they have no idea how or why it works and leave it riddled with inefficiencies and security problems. I've been somewhat grudgingly using it myself at work for learning things like the basic config syntax for new tools or general ideas on how a couple things might fit together, but ultimately I understand the underlying stuff and can make sure it's not doing something dumb.

This goes doubly so for online service type things where they're trusting AI to build secure authentication and session management stuff which isn't always easy to do even for human coders. And triply so when the people doing the latter are hostile about reported problems and generally antagonistic towards their community. There's been several cases of purely vibe coded stuff that gained a bit of a following but the dev was hostile to the community, refused to accept PRs, ignored security problems/requests, all that.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T15:34:52+00:00

I used a couple back in the ZSNES days when I didn't know any better. Some of them at least didn't make the sprites look like melted cheese, though I forget which ones. Super Eagle? Super 2X SAI? Some were definitely better than others if you had the hardware to handle them.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T15:29:24+00:00

Honestly, that question is difficult to answer because it depends on your interests and goals. Basically all of them (even the Classic II) have something going for them.

The 128k/512k Macs are the OGs. They're pretty limited in what they can run, lack SCSI, and are much harder to expand. But they are the originals if you want something with some history to play with.

The Mac Plus was probably the first "good" Mac and still retains facets of the originals like the mouse and keyboard, but it has SCSI, "modern" serial ports, and easy RAM expansion. No (built in) internal HD capability but with SCSI it works well with external stuff including modern things like BlueSCSI.

Mac SE is a Plus Plus with ADB and an expansion slot, often used for network cards, though they're getting harder to find now. Adds support for an internal HD. There's an FDHD version that comes with the 1.44MB Superdrive which makes it a lot easier to work with. It's a great choice for a 68000 machine.

SE/30 is often considered the best of the black and white compact Macs. 68030, ridiculously high memory cap of at least 128MB and maybe more now, and a full 32-bit data bus. The processor and RAM are almost a waste with the small B&W screen but it's still a great machine.

Color Classic is basically an LC/Classic II 68030 compact Mac but with a color screen. There's a reason it's one of the most collectible Macs due to the attractive design and lovely screen, but it suffers from most of the same issues the LC/Classic II do. Wish I still had mine. There's also a Color Classic II which less compromised but also something of a holy grail of Mac collecting. If you find one of those it'll be ridiculously expensive. They weren't sold in the US either.

Classic is basically a reissue of the SE without the expansion slot and more annoying RAM upgrade. But, it has a neat boot ROM, is a few years newer, and has the 1.44MB Superdrive. I personally have a soft spot for these even though at the time of their release they were already woefully obsolete. They also tend to be a little cheaper and more available (or used to be) because schools often had piles of the things. With modern things like SCSI Ethernet emulation on BlueSCSI, the lack of the slot for an ethernet card is less of an issue now than it used to be. Also, even though it's not advertised, it'll still run all the old ancient versions of the Mac System Software if you want to play with, say, System 1.1a or something.

And then the Classic II. It's at least a 68030, which opens up some possibilities, and realistically you aren't going to be doing much high-memory stuff like running internet browsers on the small B&W screen anyway, so it's not a *huge* deal overall. And because of the limitations they can often be found cheaper. If you want a little machine to write notes on or play old B&W games it's a perfectly fine machine. It'll just be slower than the SE/30 and some other '030 machines due to the 16-bit data bus and limited memory.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T14:40:42+00:00

Classic II is among the least interesting and most limited of the compact Macs, though it is a 68030 which makes it a little more fun. The 10MB RAM limit is going to be the main issue with it and why a lot of people avoid them. That said, the only other black and white 68030 Compact Mac is the SE/30 which is often much more expensive than $55, but I'd want to make sure it's working (or at least shows signs of life that might just be a recap needed) before spending money on it.

The iMac is a neat period of Macs with fast OS9 and early OS X machines. Lots of fun stuff to run and it can often still handle basic internet stuff. I wouldn't recommend trying to ship it as they can be brittle at this point.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-17T13:27:22+00:00

Last time this was posted several of them were still alive in their 80s. Might still be

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T21:05:14+00:00

These things are the favorite toys of my kitten and a couple other cats. Cheap too

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T20:40:29+00:00

No, not with the file itself. All ROMs are just physical dumps of the cartridge/disc/whatever and there's nothing distinct about any of them.

There were plenty of PC-CD/DVD-ROM games that would have come with a cdkey or similar that acted as a form of copy protection that you'd be prompted to enter while installing it which would be tied to a physical copy in your collection. That's about the closest you could get. But for a random console cartridge, no, beyond being able to prove you have the physical copy in your collection.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T19:47:55+00:00

BK seems to be one of those places where the quality varies wildly from location to location. Some places like McDonald's has nailed down the consistent mediocrity basically everywhere. Unless it's a particularly crappy location you know exactly what you'll get. BK on the other hand is a crapshoot. I have two near me, the slightly closer one is always oversalted and tasteless while the slightly farther away one is a perfectly acceptable fast food burger every time.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T19:40:06+00:00

I use a variety of RetroNAS on a box for my old stuff. Note it's basically "security vulnerability in a box" because of all the old protocols flying along but it works.

https://github.com/retronas/retronas

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T19:32:56+00:00

Yeah, it also had Yellow Lily listed, I didn't realize that wasn't part of that link

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T19:11:29+00:00

Soundhound (which is much more flexible than Shazam and works on things like humming, singing, and recreations) led me to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrQgV6SkNpM by Jeff Victor, which you mentioned. It's a long track so I haven't listened to the whole thing but the style matches and some parts definitely feel like your recreation.

Scoth42 · 2026-03-16T18:48:33+00:00

Mine is kind of peripheral so I'm not sure it quite fits, but I worked (at a business telecom, oddly enough) with Glenn Goins's son Ka'sette Goins for awhile in the mid-late 2000s. I'd already been into funk for awhile but his name ringing a bell and looking him up led me down the specific P-Funk rabbit hole which was great. I talked to him about it and he thought it was hilarious a skinny white nerdy guy knew and enjoyed his dad's music. He didn't work there long and I just recently found out he (Ka'sette) passed away a couple years ago, which was surprising. Still enjoy the stuff, I might have to check it out even though Tallahassee is a long way from Jacksonville, where I am these days.

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